1959 — At Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, the first of two All-Star games played that season went to the NL, 5-4. The NL scored the tying and winning runs in the bottom of the eighth when Hank Aaron ...

For starters, a substantial percentage (40-50%) of Supreme Court decisions in any term are unanimous. But not all cases are ...

If every district court judge in the United States had the power to halt an action of the elected government for years every ...

In 1947, Larry Doby became the first Black player in Major League Baseball's American League, joining the Cleveland Indians 11 weeks after Jackie Robinson broke the sport's color barrier with the ...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt maintained a lifelong connection with Springwood, his family home in Hyde Park, New York.

With President Donald Trump ’s decision to intervene in the Iran- Israel war, Iran, a country 6,500 miles away from ...

A New York City hotel that became a symbol of the massive wave of immigration under the Biden administration is permanently closing.

The poem that inspired the song, America the Beautiful, is 130 years old today, and it resonates more than ever.

1929 — The St. Louis Cardinals scored 10 runs in the first and fifth innings in beating the Philadelphia Phillies, 28-6, in the second game of a doubleheader. The Cardinals had 28 hits and set an NL ...

The sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis is widely known as a shark story—but the truth is much more horrifying.

1993 — Rickey Henderson of the Oakland Athletics opened both games of a doubleheader with a homer to become the second player to accomplish the feat. Harry Hooper of the Boston Red Sox homered to ...

The Waldorf Astoria Hotel has been shunned by presidents since Barack Obama after it was taken over by Chinese owners.